Channing Der, PhD, will be honored along with 23 other UNC faculty and teaching assistants at a banquet to celebrate the 2019 University Teaching Award winners.

The Office of Graduate Education at the UNC School of Medicine recognized 10 faculty members from across UNC-Chapel Hill’s campus as Excellence in Basic Science Mentoring Award winners at a January 15 ceremony with a keynote address.

Before PhD candidate and HHMI Gilliam Fellow Juanita Limas began researching “Cancer: the cell’s gas pedal,” she ran a program to increase minority representation in STEM fields and served in the Peace Corps in Nicaragua. Video update!

UNC researchers including Leslie Parise, PhD, and graduate student, Alex Chung, have designed a novel way to attack an aggressive breast cancer.

The Department of Pharmacology ranks #2 in the nation for total NIH funding in pharmacology in 2018! This demonstrates the continuous strength and excellent quality of our research efforts. Congratulations to all!

Led by Leslie Morrow, PhD, research shows how new compounds could target specific brain cell receptors to treat a wide variety of conditions, such as alcoholism, Alzheimer’s, depression, and posttraumatic stress.

Pharmacology’s Bryan Roth teamed with UCSF and European researchers to create a platform to screen hundreds of millions of never-before-synthesized compounds and then produce remarkably potent antibacterial and psychiatric drug candidates.

Congratulations to Evan Dubose, a graduate student in Gary Johnson’s and Jim Bear’s labs, for successfully defending her PhD thesis on Jan. 11, 2019!

Congratulations to Dan Goulet, a graduate student in Gary Johnson’s lab, for successfully defending his PhD thesis on Nov. 16, 2018!

Wesley Legant has one of his scientific images on display in a new exhibition at the North Carolina Museum of Art, “The Art of Science and Innovation,” which showcases the hidden beauty of biomedical research that could help unlock new, life-saving treatments. The free exhibition runs through Jan. 14, 2019, and features stunning images from the labs of UNC School of Medicine scientists.